DirecTV on my old dish/LNB

randallb wrote:
If you have an older non-HD Direct receiver you are good to go. The newer Hd receivers are a pain to get to work. On the set up page of an older receiver you can input the zipcode you are in and it will give you elevation and direction settings. Dial those in and follow the set up menu. Sometimes if I have not used ours in a while I have to call and have them do a reset at their end.
Randy

There is really no difference between setting up an "old" SD unit and a "new" HD unit for the reception of SD programming only. Anytime "any" receiver has not been connected to the satellite it will need to be reactivated. This has nothing to do with SD or HD receivers.
Only the H25 and higher model DTV receivers require special hardware but they all required being setup correctly for the attached antenna.

If you have an older non-HD Direct receiver you are good to go. The newer Hd receivers are a pain to get to work. On the set up page of an older receiver you can input the zipcode you are in and it will give you elevation and direction settings. Dial those in and follow the set up menu. Sometimes if I have not used ours in a while I have to call and have them do a reset at their end.
Randy

Merdave wrote:
I have a 10 year old Winegard crank up satellite dish setup in my motorhome. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to use my 6 month old home receiver/DVR with my old dish? Can't seem to get a straight answer from DirecTV.

As long as you are not trying to use a Genie/Client or an H25 receiver than you don't need to do anything special. Just hook up the receiver to the coax from the antenna, point the antenna per instructions and you should be good to go. You will need to go through the Repeat Satellite Setup and set the receiver up with an 18" round antenna and multiswitch (not SWM).
You cannot get any DirecTV HD programming but you will get most all of the DirecTV channels. They will just be in SD.

sdianel wrote:
you need a basic SD DC12 receiver I think. That's what our technician told us for our old dish. We don't care about HD.

Not necessarily true. Our HR24 HDDVR will do both HD and SD and use any style dish. Including our very old 18" SD dish. Chuck

you need a basic SD DC12 receiver I think. That's what our technician told us for our old dish. We don't care about HD.

If you forget to change the receiver to one tuner, all it will do is give you a message that there is no satellite signal on tuner 2. But it is best to change it. You will not be able to watch one channel and record another. Unless you have two cables in from the dish and both hooked up as YC 1 said. Chuck

My crank up sat DIRECTV dish has two ports. I run one port to an old DIRECTV Rcvr in MAIN Home entertainment and the other SAT DISH port to the bedroom are using a second old SAT RCVR.

My SAT ANTENNA has two RG CABLES coming from the roof into a DUAL RG F-CONNECTOR socket i made up in the cabinet where all the RADIO CABLETV and now SAT TV comes too.. My DIRECTV dish only gave me standard SAT TV channels (NOT HDTV signals)...

Having the SAT DISH separated from the other HDTV cables solves a bunch of problems for me.

Our older SAT RCVRS was on a current DIRECTV ACCOUNT in my house. I just moved the SAT RCVRS to the trailer. I almost every time doing the inital setup would have to log-in to DIRECTV and reset the SAT RCVR unit. It seems my older SAT RCVRS would lose their memory when I unplugged them from the house. At first I was calling the 800 number for DIRECTV and talking with an agent. Then I found out you can do the same thing ON-LINE with the computer so we did that when we could. Just make sure you have the DirecTv Account including which location it was in your house info and SAT RCVR chip address on hand. I taped all of that info on the SAT RCVR case... I never had any problems doing this all out in the open with Directv Blessings over the two or more years we did this... We did lose out local TV receptions however when ever we moved outside our local ZIP CODE area so had to use the OTA Crankup to pickup the local towns NATL BROADCAST stations.

I use the VIDEO OUTPUT from the SAT RCVRs instead of selecting CH3 or Ch4 and run that to a VIDEO JACK on each of the TVs. Then using the TV REMOTE I can select either TV for watching channels from the CABLE or OTA CONNECTIONs or the SAT TV using one of its VIDEO PORTS and never move away from the big easy chair hehe...

All looked great to me.

After the NATL BROADCAST came out with DIGITAL TV in 2009 I just stopped bringing along my SAT RCVRS and finally dropped the DIRECTV ACCOUNT.

We get our fill just fine now using the crankup BATWING OTA antenna on our RV pointing at the local towns near where are at. It is full blown HIGH DEF TV as well. Much better than what we was picking up from the CABLE TV and the SAT TV...

However we do miss some of the SAT TV stations like WX CHANNEL or CNN NEWS. The local stations CBS-ABC-FOX-NBC channels are great though. Turns out each of the OTA towers we pick up each has six channels they can use and most often we find a 24/7 live RADAR going for the area we are in. Camping in the OFF-ROAD POPUP sort of nice being able to watch the weather fronts in real time...

Hope this helps some...

Have no idea how all of the modern RV HDTVs work... Way too much electronics for me to deal with...

In my 5th wheel I have a 26-inch LCD HDTV in the main room and a 22-inch HDTV in the bedroom. My POPUP has the 22-inch HDTV. All are VIZIOs from WALMART.

OTA HDTV using the BATWING antenna with dipoles comes in great in almost all of the areas we like to camp at...


Roy Ken

Chuckbear is dead on. You probably don't have B-band converters but if you do, take them off. If you are using a DVR, you will need to program it to "one receiver", unless you have two outputs from the dish.

A b-band receiver is a small rectangular box with short coax cables on each end and connect to the receivers.

You will not get high definition channels so set up a new "favorites" list for the rv.

Look in your receiver set up menu for the satellite set up. If the menu options allow you to choose the dish type, set it to 18" round dish and the switch to multi. That should allow you to get your channels but on standard definition only. Set your dish to pick up the 101 satellite. If the LNB is still working, you should be in business. Our HR24 DVR can be set this way if we use an 18" dish instead of our Trav'lr when trees block the roof. You'll have to go through the entire satellite set up on the receiver but it should work. Not sure about the new Genie's. Chuck

Directv or Dish for that matter are not too helpful with RV set-ups. More than likely your current sat dish mounted on your RV roof will only receive video content from sat 101. Although we don't know receiver model just crank up dish and connect incoming sat coax to rear of receiver. Power on receiver and step through set-up process of pointing your rooftop dish to sat 101.

Doing this at home where you can see how your residential dish is pointed will help get you on track faster. Choose your type of sat dish (18" round) and peg sat meter preferably in the 90 percent range. The process isn't overly difficult just takes some practice to master. Refer to pointing coordinates on receiver for location you are setting up satellite, helps to be as level as possible.